James H. Davidson is Chair of the Public Policy group at Polsinelli Shughart PC. For more than 20 years, he has helped companies and business associations define and achieve their goals in the legislative and regulatory arenas of the federal government. Prior to joining Polsinelli Shughart he was the founding partner of lobbying firm Davidson & Company. His work on Capitol Hill also includes service as Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, chaired by Sen. John C. Culver of Iowa; and Chief Counsel of the Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, chaired by Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine.
Mr. Davidson has helped his clients address a broad range of public policy areas including advertising and media law, food and drug advertising, commercial speech and the First Amendment, privacy, tax policy, telecommunications and the Internet, health care and budget and appropriations policy. Through his work on behalf of a coalition of televison and cable networks and national media and advertising trade associations, Mr. Davidson is one of the nation's leading experts on media and advertising law. He was asked by leaders in the advertising, media and food manufacturing industries to help coordinate industry self-regulatory initiatives and supporting legislation and regulations through creation of the Alliance for American Advertising.
He writes the “Eye on Washington” column on prescription drug advertising for DTC Perspectives Magazine.